Vol 22 – Issue 04 – Page 4

Finally, the World Gets it About Pixels

by Jon Peddie

Yesterday, we ran a Display Daily from our good friend, Dr Jon Peddie. Unfortunately, a misunderstanding meant that only two of the three pictures were included. We’ve fixed that, so if you want to …

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New Large-Format Monochrome Ultra-Glow LCD Marine Instrument Displays from Garmin

by Tom Allen

Garmin’s new marine monitors are said to show the brightest, most visible digits on the market. Both the 7″ GNX 120 and 10″ GNX 130 are ultra-glow anti-fog (optically-bonded) displays, using an inverted LCD display …

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Hannspree Licenses Windows for Micro PC Stick

by Tom Allen

Just one day after Inlighten announced its Argo Windows-based ‘PC’ HDMI stick, Hannspree has followed with a similar product called the Micro PC. Hannspree’s device runs a fully-licensed version of Windows 8.1 on a …

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Sharp Forecasts Results Shortfall

by Helen Vince

Sharp confirmed this week that its financial results for the year ending in March 2015 are expected to fall short of the company’s last forecast in October. The company was responding to claims in …

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Lapexpand Seeks Funding

by Vanessa Browning

Lapexpand is a project that is seeking crowdfunding on Indiegogo (http://tinyurl.com/ph7asmp), and intending to bring the full desktop experience to mobile computing. The company is developing portable, lightweight monitors (1920 x 1080) that fold …

Rumours Fly Before MWC

by Tom Allen

MWC is widely expected to serve as the launch platform for a number of tier one manufacturers’ flagship products this year, given their absence from the CES tradeshow. Rumours about Sony‘s Xperia Z4 have …

CeBIT is Returning to Hannover

by Vanessa Browning

CeBIT will take place from 16th – 20th March 2015 in Hannover this year. The main theme will be the digital economy, with sub-themes of mobile; social; big data; the cloud; and security. China …

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Fujitsu Nominates New President

by Helen Vince

Fujitsu has nominated Tatsuya Tanaka as its new president, to replace Masami Yamamoto when his tenure comes to an end in June 2015. Since April last year, Tanaka has been overseeing Fujitsu’s operations in …

SFO Ends HP/Autonomy Investigation

by Helen Vince

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has concluded its investigation into the sale of UK software company Autonomy to HP and says there is no case to answer. The investigation began in 2013 after …

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Super Bowl’s UltraHD Cameras Not Used for Transmission

by Vanessa Browning

Super Bowl 2015 is likely to use up to six UltraHD cameras, according to panelists at last year’s SMPTE conference in Hollywood. The cameras will be used to to zoom and showcase key plays, …

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Amazon Streams UltraHD in Germany

by Tom Allen

Amazon Instant Video can now be used to stream UltraHD content in Germany, although currently there is only English language content. The app is currently supported by Ultra HD TV sets from Samsung, LG and …

Why “TV Everywhere” Isn’t

by Aldo Cugnini

Content providers made their annual pilgrimage to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and several were on tap at a discussion entitled, “Where Is TV Everywhere Taking Us”. With panelists from DISH …

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